Monday, August 06, 2007

Double World Champ+UnexPected ProDigy+ the BriTish McLaren team = ?

I specifically want to dedicate this post to the fans of the Johnny Walker Mclaren Mercedes F1 team out there. This equation is pretty interesting , well at least i didn't know it was this interesting until i got home to watch the race and read about the all controversial "HARD" weekend this team had to endure ...

This is the first time i did not watch a race this year from the start but i only switched on the tv to watch it 23 laps before the end. Which means i've already missed out on a whole lot of unexpected controversy and drama as well as more than half the race. I saw Hamilton's car being caught on camera , which was most lilkely the driver that leads the race...so knowing that my favourite driver Massa is starting from 14th place today due to some pace problem Ferrari was facing yesterday afternoon , i had no mood to watch and wasn't even excited to rush home to watch it ... my intuition just told me it wouldn't be Ferrari's day ...

So yeah , it was Hamilton on pole , after Alonso who after being investigated by the race stewards for delaying Hamilton's qualifying time in the pitlane deliberately... was stripped off from his pole and pushed down 5 places below instead. So , that was how the child prodigy started in pole and finished in 1st place. With Kimi chasing him throughout of course , just that they were too competitive and the Ferrari wasn't fast enough.

I didn't know about Alonso's pole position punishment , and after reading more information from the websites , i then found out that the team boss Ron Dennis was extremely angry at Hamilton for ignoring team orders from the pits (he was suppose to let Alonso pass by on track and come in behind him to change tyres before going out for their final run but he continued ahead and that's why their tactics were screwed up, and made him missed his final qualifying run instead and sadly Alonso now paid the penalty for being misunderstood by the race stewards and got stripped off his pole position)

So apparently , according to the reporters ... Hamilton made his boss VERY angry and they both exchanged a war of "F" words through the radio on Saturday and the whole weekend was kind of dramatic and screwed up for him ... and apparently also the whole team wasn't in talking terms with the young gun ... according to Alonso , which we don't know how true is that.

These were of course news from Saturday itself only .. not mentioning the previous heated up issue of the Ferrari vs Mclaren spying saga .. where Mclaren were found guilty of spying into Ferrari's confidential documents (Mclaren ex chief designer were caught to be owning 780 pages of Ferrari's confidential operating system documents but the team was free from penalty!) .. Ferrari is lodging an appeal right now .. after such "unfair" decisions being made by the FIA which is so unhealthy for the sport ...

And so Mclaren already had enough of saga to endure coming to Hungary this weekend ... then suddenly here comes the Sat qualifying issue ... the boss himself admits that

"I feel the pressure of two very competitive drivers who want to win."

Not to mention his not so pleasant relationship with the double world champion who is only at the beginning of a relationship compared to Hamilton who has raced for Mclaren since he was 13! (junior racing series years) So ... obviously things are not going too well at the mclaren camp.. and i just finish reading this exclusive interview from ITV F1 channel that interviewed Hamilton just before the race today ..... about everthing , the UNedited version of the transcript.

His interview made me want to write about this post ... His attitude made me think. This guy is just 22 years old , only older than me 2 years .. living a dream life ,a dream so hard to believe that he himself didn't expect it to happen. IF he ever wins this year's world championship he'll be creating history and making thousands of britons worshipping him on his feet .. not to mention fans from overseas. The whole world will be at his feet.

He is GOOD ... undoubtly , and also full of confidence. Somtimes i wonder , doesn't he make mistakeS? F1 is NOT easy ... for a rookie like him , he's bloody lucky to be at the right place and at the right time... fighting his pants off ... he made a double world champ chase after him instead of vice versa... that sounds cool huh... i read his interview about how he made the whole team feeling slightly uncomfortable with him throughout the weekend , how much drama he created in the garage ... how Alonso didn't talk to him after the qualifying incident ... but there's only one thing that kept his head down. Which is ,

TO WIN THE RACE

the next day.

After all the drama and saga , he knew what to do ... he knew his job well .. he behaved and thinks just like a winner . A born winner. I am tempted to want to label him as arrogant , but at the same time i can't too. I can't because he belongs to the "FOCUSED" kind of person more rather than ARROGANT. He certainly has attitude which amazes me at the age of 22 .... and i somehow think it was derived from his younger brother's sickness (his 15 yr old brother is suffering from this sickness that made him can't walk or stand too long i think!) .. so people like that have stronger mentality than any healthy souls out there.

So i don't know ... a person like him also has such strong character that they end up only believing themselves and surrounding their thoughts around themselves without thinking about other things .. but then again , if he didn't think in this manner then probably he wouldn't have won today's race and salvaged some dignity for his own name. Life is this difficult huh?? We make mistakes in life , but one thing he didn't mention was that how God can help us retreat it back as long as we repent and go back to His hands ...

Seriously , he sounded really like living in his own world .. but then again , if he didn't think of it this way ... he wouldn't be able to stay focus and wouldn't be able to do what he is doing now. So yeah , never never underestimate teenagers or young hungry bloods of today.

By the way , i now really really am thankful that my RED SCARLET Ferrari team are free from issues like these ... and surprisingly , conflicts and politics come from not an Italian team but from a "talk a lot" British bloke team! hhahahahah .... I love Schumi and still do and will always do... no matter how good Hamilton is , he'll never be able to have the same kind of driving style and character like Schumi ... a motivator , always keeping the team together. That's what seperate experience from hunger huh?

PS - There's a reason why this post is in black font.

PSS - Felipe , whatever happened today , cheer on and rise up to win the next GP!

PSSS - Kimi , good job. Though i didn't watch from the beginning but it was nice to see you in 2nd place rather than not scoring any points.

Sometimes , its better to quit the talking and let the action do it.

1 Comments:

Blogger Teck!! said...

yish... i miss 2day's race coz art rushing art management & din noe got race. But i prefer more on last few years races. The way they compete really is mroe healthy not like now @.@ Now, they care more bout their income and reputation. Worst is trying to get rid of other team. Huh....

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